reddit_video_maker

This project searches reddit for content and compiles it into either:

Usage

Use virtual environment and download requirements
Use config.py folder in src folder to create matching environment variables which you can get help with below
- Generate Praw API key and list the details there
- see: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps and https://www.jcchouinard.com/get-reddit-api-credentials-with-praw/
Post reddit links inside of src/list.txt or customize and run populateList.py to generate links for desired content
In order to change the type of compilation/content change CONTENT_TYPE variable to desired output in run.py
Set up a configuration for run.py using list.txt as a parameter and the corresponding environment variables from config.py

<reddit post link> <number of comments to scrape> <title of mp4 video>
<reddit post link> <number of comments to scrape> <title of mp4 video>
...

Depending on user settings, creates compilations of either images, videos, or TTS
Uses a Reddit api to scrape posts, external links, and top comments

Scrapes the content from post/comments to create images for each post and combine them into an mp4 file
Puts the text into text to speech to create mp3 file for soundtrack behind clips

Scrapes user submitted images and links to images for each post using requests api and turns them into image clips
Combines image clips into mp4 video compilation

Scrapes user submitted videos and audio for each post using youtube-dl api and ffmpeg to recombine audio and video files.
Compiles the video clips into one large video, adding music to those clips who did not have audio